Andrew Lih and Andrew Phillips interview two prominent researchers of Wikipedia: Felipe Ortega and Ed Chi. Their research was cited in a widely discussed Wall Street Journal article “Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages“. We discuss the accuracy of the statistic that 49,000 editors have departed Wikipedia, and the long term prospects of researching and modeling Wikipedia’s growth and community health.
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A joint Wikipedia Weekly and Wikivoices podcast covers the recent letter sent by the UK National Portrait Gallery to User:Dcoetzee (link). The NPG is disputing Wikimedia Commons use of their photos of out-of-copyright paintings. We also discuss the controversial new Advisory Council setup by the Arbitration Committee.
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The continuation of a (big) roundtable news discussion with Andrew Lih, Andrew Phillips, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester, Durova, and Sage Ross. Topics include: the future of Wikipedia, challenges for 2009 and predictions for the coming year.
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A (big) roundtable news discussion with Andrew Lih, Andrew Phillips, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester, Durova, and Sage Ross. In this episode:
- RNA research peer-review and Wikipedia
- Study: Are Wikipedians grumpy?
- Admin uses ability to view deleted edits to obtain test “answer key”, posts on Facebook
- Philosopher finds that Wikipedia has good “epistemic consequences”
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Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt and Chad Horohoe team up to bring you the latest year-end Wiki news and commentary.
Topics include:
- 1:25 Usabililty project, Stanton Grant
- 3:15 WYSIWYG problem
- 6:00 Editing: templates and infoboxes overload
- 12:45 Dragonsflight statistics, user slowdown?
- 14:50 Clay Shirky, and the need for community
- 22:15 Detailed stats
- 24:50 This week in censorship
- 31:35 Should WMF/community support filtering? For schools, countries?
- 41:50 Australian NoCleanFeed situation
- 45:13 Recent changes for Barack Obama and government in general
- 48:19 Florence Devouard National Merit award
- 50:26 Ordering images from Commons
- 59:18 Fair access to ordering/advertising?
- 1:06:00 German federal archive
- 1:10:00 Predictions for 2009
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Fuzheado, Witty Lama and (a sleepy) Tawker team up to bring you the latest Wiki news and commentary.
Topics include:
Wikipedia’s US election coverage; an interview with NoCleanFeed.com on government sponsored censorship in Australia; the ongoing Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser; changes to the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 and its relation to Creative Commons; feedback/complaints on the United Nations University survey; the abuse filter; is Wikipedia Weekly NPOV?; podcaster’s picks; and more.
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The roundtable convenes for the first time after Wikimania.
- 00:00 Sarah Palin article edits
- 00:06 Erik Zachte, statistics and Infodisiac blog
- 00:12 Amazon Sound Unwound
- 00:17 WYSIWYG discussed on Ben Yates blog
- 00:24 Chrome, Google’s new browser
- 00:31 New official Wikipedia Write API, and explanation of why it’s important
- 00:37 Wikiscanner and signbot, Wired wins award
- 00:44 How powerful is Wikipedia, Google Pagerank
- 00:49 Whither the state of core tech articles in Wikipedia?
- 00:51 Frieda Brioschi resigns from board
- 00:52 Wikiquote, should it be disbanded
- 00:56 Chief program officer for WMF
- 01:00 Flagged revisions now the norm at German Wikipedia
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This week, we talk about the possibility of adding 2 million new articles with a bot, stalking, collaboration and usernames.
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- 1:30 Wikipedia Story Wiki
- ~07:00 – Powerset
- 12:00 Disclaimers
- 23:30 Massive bot additions?
- 34:00 Single user login
- 38:30 Offensive usernames
- 48 Colloboration tool
- 48 Board elections
- 59 Stalking
- 1:07 Illustration project
- 1:12 Area51
- 1:31 END
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An interview with Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia and chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Topics
- Board restructuring
- Moderation of Foundation-L
- Stuart West new board member
- Ayn Rand
- Hayek and Reason magazine article
- Corporate use of wikis
- Value of Wikipedia to historians
- Research idea – use of language in articles vs. time of editing
- Andrew Keen debate
- John Seigenthaler panel
- Erasing obvious vandalism from database
- BLP – Brian Peppers and limiting article sizes
- “Arbcom” equivalent for content
- Wikia search
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The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (Witty Lama), Privatemusings.
1:50 Donations from Sloan and Khosla
12:39 Staffing
15:21 Statistics
19:58 FlaggedRevs
39:03 Single User Login
40:35 Wikinews update – interview w/Mike Halterman
53:15 Wikimania 2009 – Buenos Aires
58:30 Top 100
- Major Boobage
- Fitna
- D.B. Cooper
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